Suchergebnisse

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: embodiments of power: building baroque cities in Austria and Europe / Gary B. Cohen and Franz A.J. Szabo -- Embodiments of power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg residences of Graz and Innsbruck / Mark Hengerer -- Baroque comes for the archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun, and their ideals of "modern art" and architecture / Roswitha Juffinger -- Religious art and the formation of a Catholic identity in baroque Prague / Howard Louthan -- Prague, Wrocław, and Vienna: center and periphery in transformations of baroque culture? / Jiří Pešek -- Representation of the court and burghers in the baroque cities of the high road: Kraków, Wrocław, and Dresden in a historical comparison / Jan Harasimowicz -- From Protestant fortress to baroque apotheosis: Dresden from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Barbara Marx -- A tale of two cities: Nuremberg and Munich / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Searching for the new Constantine: early modern Rome as a Spanish imperial city / Thomas Dandelet -- The zodiac in the streets: inscribing "Buon Governo" in baroque Naples / John A. Marino -- A setting for royal authority: the reshaping of Madrid, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / David Ringrose -- Bibliography.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Age of Secretaries -- Chapter 2 Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350-c. 1520) -- Chapter 3 Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire -- Chapter 4 'This continuous writing': The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles -- Chapter 5 Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559-73) -- Chapter 6 Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 7 Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641) -- Chapter 8 Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635-59): Statesmanship in Context -- Chapter 9 The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639) -- Chapter 10 Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth- Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi -- Chapter 11 Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual -- Chapter 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's Foreign Policy (1688-97) -- Chapter 13 Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism -- Index